Chapter 1: The Day the Sun Bled
Life was perfect, or at least it felt that way. It was Raj's 17th birthday, and the small apartment in the heart of the city was filled with the sweet aroma of his mother's cooking and the sound of his younger sister's laughter. His father had just handed him a small, wrapped gift, his eyes crinkling with a proud smile.
"To my brave son," his father had whispered. "May you always protect what you love."
But those were the last words Raj would ever hear from him.
Without warning, the sky didn't just darken—it shattered. A jagged, purple rift tore through the atmosphere, a wound in reality itself. From that dark dimension, shadows began to pour out. They weren't just monsters; they were nightmares made flesh.
In an instant, the laughter turned into bone-chilling screams. The walls of their happy home crumbled like paper as a massive, clawed beast crashed through the roof. Raj watched in frozen horror as his world was torn apart. His father tried to shield them, his mother reached out one last time, but the void was merciless.
Within minutes, the street was a graveyard. Raj lay under the debris, gasping for air, the only survivor of a family that had been his entire universe. At seventeen, he was alone in a dying world, clutching the blood-stained gift his father had given him.
The sky was bleeding crimson, and as the monsters roared in triumph, a cold, blue screen flickered before Raj's tear-filled eyes.
[Grief levels: Maximum.]
[Will to Live: Critical.]
[System Initializing... You are the last hope of this planet.]
Raj wiped the blood from his brow, his eyes turning from a soft brown to a cold, glowing azure. The boy who loved his family was gone;the Hero was born.